Basketball: The men’s and women’s basketball teams will compete in the Barre Granite Association College Classic on November 18-19

NORTHFIELD, Vermont – The Norwich College males’s and ladies’s basketball applications put together to compete within the annual Barre Granite Affiliation School Basic on the historic Barre Auditorium in Barre, Vermont on Friday, November 18 and Saturday, November 19 november.

In its third 12 months for the reason that 2019-20 season, the Basic will function 5 prestigious Vermont state establishments. Along with Norwich, the lads’s and ladies’s groups from Castleton College and Northern Vermont-Johnson College will compete, whereas the lads’s program from Vermont Technical School and the ladies’s workforce from Northern Vermont-Lyndon College will even be in motion. The 2-day occasion was graciously sponsored and supported by the Barre Granite Affiliation.

The Norwich ladies’s basketball workforce will kick off the festivities on Friday afternoon, taking over the Badgers in a 1:00 p.m. showdown earlier than the Norwich males take the ground at 3:00 p.m. for a recreation towards Vermont Tech. The 2 groups will then shut out the occasion on Saturday, because the Cadets entertain the Hornets at 4:00 p.m., adopted by the Norwich males trying to avenge a loss to the Spartans at 6:00 p.m. A full program is obtainable under.

The Cadet Ladies solely noticed one recreation of motion eventually 12 months’s Basic as NVU-Lyndon was pressured out of COVID-19 restrictions. In a night combat between Norwich and NVU-Johnson on opening day, the Cadets rallied from a 15-point third quarter deficit, occurring a 24-8 run within the 9 minutes that adopted to regain the lead en path to a 77-72 win. Haley Brewster (Virginia Seashore, Virginia) led the comeback effort, posting a career-high 36 factors, together with 23 within the fourth quarter, to go together with 15 rebounds. Silas Bernier (Jaffrey, NH) was additionally essential, totaling 15 factors and 4 assists.

The boys, in the meantime, parted methods of their pair of video games final 12 months, claiming a 78-51 victory over Vermont Tech earlier than falling to Castleton, 89-80, on the final drink on Saturday. Put up play spearheaded the Cadets’ victory over the Knights, because of a 16-point double-double and 10 boards. Donovan Lewis Jr. (Savannah, Georgia) and 14 factors of Owen Liss (West Suffield, Conn.). 5 caddies scored double digits within the nine-point loss to Castleton, with Liss main those that returned for Norwich with 17 factors off the bench. Lewis Jr. had a 12-point efficiency, whereas Jalen Olivero (Holyoke, Mass.) scores 10 factors.

Each the lads’s and ladies’s groups are coming off dominating wins over Lesley College on Tuesday and shall be trying to maintain the momentum going forward of the Thanksgiving break subsequent week.

Full-day admission to the Barre Auditorium is $4 for adults, whereas college students underneath 14 can enter free of charge.